Below are some of the courses we offer at these levels. All of these courses can be adapted to your requirements. In addition we can offer alternative subjects, as desired. Please contact us to discuss anything further.

​​Pupils arrive and are asked to observe what is around them. Depending on the age/ability this can take the form of colour hunts, texture hunts, or pictures in the sky.

They make their way to the base, where they are asked to create a piece of land art.

The class goes around and evaluates one another’s work.

They finish off with another observational or sensory activity.

This activity can also be linked with “The Gruffalo” story.

Powerful Plants

The content of this course is season dependant, however it will focus on both trees and non woody plants.

Pupils will be asked to observe plants around them and identify some of them.

They will enact a drama about the things that plants need for growth, and consider the lifecycle of plants.

They will explore the yearly cycle of trees and be introduced to variation in the tree species.

They will use observational skills to identify shapes and/or tree species.

They will create something (season dependant) relating to trees and other plants.

Super Senses

Pupils will explore the environment around them using their senses.

Activities can include (some will be season dependant):

Colour hunt

Texture hunt

Magic (smelly) potions

Listening to the trees

Music activity

Blindfold walk

​Sensational Stories

Choose from popular books such as “The Gruffalo,” “Super Worm,” “The Story Of The Little Mole Who Knew It Was None Of His Business,” “We’re Going On A Bear Hunt,” “Owl Babies” “Stickman” and “The Very Hungry Caterpillar.”

The story will form the central theme of an exploration of the woodlands.

This will include a walk, a creative activity, a sensory activity and more!

Mighty Minibeasts

Pupils will consider what animals and plants need in a habitat.

They will explore the woodland floor looking for minibeasts.

These will be identified and studied.

All minibeasts will be released and we will discuss why we return everything to how it was – considering further the needs of the animals.

In addition, minibeast games will be used to begin/finish the activity.

Awesome Algorithms

Pupils will consider the role of giving instructions and how important their communication is.

They will take turns to give, and be given instructions in different situation, for example whilst blindfolded

For Year 2 this can be linked with minibeast hunting and creating/using keys.

Magnificent Maths

Using the environment, aspects of maths will be explored.

This is particularly age/ability dependant.

Examples of activities may include

Shape matching

Aging a tree using girth

Minibeast maths

Basic map work and creating directions

Creating 2D and 3 D shapes and exploring their properties

eCological Creations

Using environmental artists such as Andy Goldsworthy and Richard Long as inspiration, pupils will produce their own works of land art to express a theme or idea.

They will evaluate their own and other people’s work and give feedback in an appropriate manner.

They will discuss the concept of biodegradable and ephemeral.

Awesome Algorithms

They will practise giving clear instructions.

They will explore the role of instruction giving and understand why accuracy is essential.

They can use and produce keys for identification of minibeast or trees.

They will understand the importance that binary (or yes-no response) played in the development of computers.

Marvellous Maths

Pupils will be given a series of tasks to complete in teams. These will be problem solving activities that will incude using maths in a wide range of situations.

These may include

How high is the tree top trail?

How old is one of the veteran Oak trees?

How many trees are there in Salcey Forest?

Creating shapes from natural materials

Map work

Tree-mendous Trees

Pupils will explore a tree and everything to do with it.

This will include

Tree species and identification features

The tree as a habitat

Tree height, girth and age

How people have used the wood and other tree parts

Astonishing Adaptations

Using both plant and animal life students will explore the variant species in different habitats.

They will consider their adaptations to these habitats.

They will “design” their own species and assess it’s adaptations.

Fantastic Feeding

Pupils will explore the woodland ecosystem starting with a single tree.

They will expand from the tree as a producer to resident and transient herbivores and their associated predators.

They will consider the flow of nutrients in a woodland environment.

They will explore and construct their own food chain/cycle.

Wonderful Words

Using different techniques pupils will consider the role of story telling and create their own story, which they will tell to others.

They will hear appropriate stories, poems and parts of novels.

They will create their own stories using:

Natural materials around them for Story boards

Creating woodland characters

Mapping the rhythm of a story

Using drama and dramatic techniques to tell a story

Evaluating one another’s stories

Clever Classification

Pupils will explore the idea of classification as a concept using themselves.